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Non-Metric Methods


Shyh-Kang Jeng
Department of Electrical Engineering/
Graduate Institute of Communication/
Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University

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Non-Metric Descriptions

Nominal data
Discrete
Without natural notation of similarity or even ordering
Property d-tuple
With lists of attributes
e.g., { red, shiny, sweet, small }
i.e., color = red, texture = shiny,
taste = sweet, size = small